• Evaluating the current state of the biometrics industry worldwide and in Asia
• Identifying the key applications that will drive biometrics
• Predicting timescales and rollout of biometrics across Asia
• Which vertical sectors have shown the greatest interest in biometrics?

• Reviewing the immigration applications of the Smart Card ID Project
  -    what impact will the Smart Card have on passport control?
• Enabling electronic applications via e-certification
• Examining other applications
  -   driving licence related functions
  -   using the smart card as a library card
• What has been the feedback from the public?

• What are the cross border security challenges faced by Singapore?
• Evaluating the advantages of digital fingerprint recognition and understanding why was this chosen ahead of other alternatives
• Analysing the latest results of iris recognition technologies for motorcyclists
• What has been the impact on national cross border security?
• How FAST (Fully Automated Seamless Travel) creates new levels of customer service and security

• Outlining the aims of the US-Visit program – where does biometrics fit in?
• Analysing how biometrics has enabled the following:
  - enhancing the security of citizens and visitors
  - facilitating legitimate travel and trade
  - ensuring the integrity of the immigration systems
  - protecting the privacy of visitors to the country

• Why was an iris recognition solution chosen against other alternatives?
• Examining implementation challenges
• How successful has iris recognition been at improving operational efficiency?

• What are the main concerns that the public has regarding biometric deployment and what can be done to allay these concerns
• How real are fears over privacy?
• Strategies for winning over the public to biometrics
• Potential future hurdles

• Examining the mission-critical benefits that biometrics bring to criminal investigations
• Reviewing the CrimTrac Agency’s biometrics initiatives
• Future developments

• Outlining the current drivers impacting passport security
• Understanding the attributes needed for a biometric passport
• Is biometrics the answer to cross border security issues?
• Constructive steps towards a biometric future

Speed Networking is an exciting non-pressured way to meet fellow conference delegates and industry peers in one 40 minute session. These brief meetings are the starting point for conversation and networking throughout the conference. This is where long lasting and profitable business relationships begin.

• Form long-lasting and profitable business relationships
• Exchange business cards with fellow conference delegates and industry peers
• The best 40 minutes networking session you have ever experienced

·     Highlighting concerns over port and shipping security

• Enhancing security and identification through collating fingerprint and demographic information
• Reviewing the testing process of the ID Card

At the end of the day each delegate will be asked to join a table of their choice to discuss and network with like-minded individuals facing similar challenges. Each round table will be led by an industry expert.

Round discussion table 1: Government uses for biometrics

Round discussion table 4: Standards and regulation issues

Round discussion table 5: Legal and privacy issues

• Outlining the business case for multiple biometric smart card applications
• What are the challenges of integrating physical and logical access?
• Understanding how biometrics integrated with smart cards can realise high levels of security, interoperability and flexibility
• Managing a biometric multi-application smart card system 

• What are the specific challenges of integrating biometrics with payment solutions?
• Understanding how biometrics solutions can reduce identity fraud
• Increasing security without compromising customers’ privacy concerns

This session will feature panellists from leading card associations answering questions on the potential for biometrics in the banking and payment industry

·     Predicting timelines for the roll out of biometric payment solutions

• Which biometric technology is best suited to being deployed within a payment environment?
• What are the potential obstacles to implementing biometric payment solutions?
• What are the potential benefits?

• Biometrics standards in Asia: what are they and is it enough? What areas have been left unresolved? 
• Examining country variances in biometrics standards 
• Improving testing procedures for biometrics 
• End users, consumers and advocacy groups: who should be responsible for what in determining and developing guidelines? 

• Balancing public security needs with fears about misuse of biometric data
• Implementing guidelines for the fair use of biometric data
• Securely separating biometric data from other personal identification data
• Ensuring buy-in from end users - winning their 'hearts and minds'

• Exploring advances in biometrics
• Examining the economics of retrofitting biometric technology in a security solution
• Key biometric security application development environments and tools
• Fingerprint v facial biometrics – competing or complementary?
• Analysing scalable solutions that support different biometric applications

Five Star Management run an Immigrant Workers Dormitory in Singapore

• Outlining the security problems faced by the Immigrant Worker’s Dormitory
• Why was a facial recognition solution chosen against other alternatives?
• Examining implementation challenges
• How successful has facial recognition been at improving security?

• Examining the benefits of using voice based recognition systems
• Evaluating the accuracy of voice based recognition systems compared to the available alternatives
• Improving reliability and consistency

• Choosing your partner and key suppliers
• Technological choice and evaluation
• Migration strategies and challenges
• Quantifying the range of benefits
• Investment horizons and payback
• Learning from your peers

The master class will run from 9.00am to 4.00pm with appropriate breaks for refreshments and lunch.  

Registration: 8.30am

Objective 

Over the next few years banks and retailers in the Asia-Pacific region will look for new ways to use new technologies including RFID and biometrics to expand payment options for their consumers, to build consumer loyalty and to decrease the cost of accepting payments. This master class will explore how RFID contactless smartcards are already changing the way consumers pay and how the retail community is accepting payments. The master class will also explore how contactless smart cards can be used to incorporate biometrics into our everyday lives.

The master class will have an interactive hands-on format, and participants will be encouraged to share their experiences.

Who should attend? 

This master class will be relevant for anyone who is interested in how RFID security technologies and / or the payment system value chain - including issuing and acquiring banks, merchants, chip card vendors, equipment manufacturers, government bodies and boards. This master class is for anyone with an interest in the future of the contactless smart cards (RFID, NFC).

• Session 1: RFID based lifestyle solutions – what are they? 

• Session 2: Contactless smart card solutions – a world-wide review 

• Session 3: Evaluating the business benefits of RFID smart card solutions for consumers, businesses, merchants, financial institutions and governments  

• Session 4: Challenges to implementing contactless solutions  

• Session 5: Impact of RFID lifestyle solutions on the way we live and 
       travel 
• Session 6: Wrap up and Question and Answer Session